French law blocking terrorist and child abuse sites comes into effect

Law that allows blockade of offending sites without a court order criticised by free-speech groups as circumventing judicial powerFrance has introduced a new law that allows government agencies to order the blocking of websites that advocate acts of terrorism or contain images of child abuse.
The legislation was brought in by revisions to 2011’s Loppsi Act, and an anti-terror bill passed by the French senate in October, but can now be used by the general directorate of the police’s cybercr